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Numerous entrepreneurship scholars have explored the role of social networks in the entrepreneurship process (Katz and Gartner, 1988; Reynolds and Miller, 1992; Liao and Welsch, 2005). Still others have maintained focus on the acquisition of resources through social network contacts (Shane and Venkataraman, 2000; Aldrich and Zimmer, 1986). However, in the social networking literature pertaining to entrepreneurship, a disproportionate number of studies has presented a rather static view of social networks. Such a static view seems to overlook the fact that social networks are dynamic in nature, changing in structure and composition over time (Jack et al., 2008; Doreian and Stokman, 1997; Liao et al., 2005; Maurer and Ebers, 2006). In addition, the networking perspective of entrepreneurship has either focused on network characteristics such as strength of ties (Shane and Cable, 2002), embeddedness among the ties (Hite, 2005) and structure of the network (Human and Provan, 1997), or placed emphasis on developing networks such as networking ability (Semrau and Sigmund, 2010) and network practices (Anderson et al., 2010). While there is general understanding of entrepreneurship as a dynamic process at the nexus of individuals and opportunities (Shane and Venkataraman, 2000; Shane, 2003), how entrepreneurs maintain social networks at different stages of their venturing becomes crucial to business performance (SlotteKock and Coviello, 2010). To our knowledge, whether and why entrepreneurs’ social network composition systematically varies across stages of the new venture formation has not been empirically examined. Our research intends to fill this research gap. Specifically, this study empirically investigates whether

Entrepreneurial network composition and the venture creation process: an empirical investigation